Tension-guide and thread-cleaner.



H M )II v W. J. ENGLISH. TENSIO\N GUIDE AND THREAD CLEANER.

' APPL\ICATI0N FILED JAN. 25, 1908.

. ATTORNEYS WITNESSES PATENTED Am 1908. 1

UNITED. STATES PA ENT, OFFICE."

WILLIAM J. ENGLISH, or couoes, NEW YORK.

TENSION-GUIDE AND THREAD-CLEANER.-

No. 895,354. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application filed January 25, 1908. Serial 1:10. 412,601.

- lumps, motes, and other protuberam es 1' rom 'and driven .from any suitable. source of power.

the thread in its passage. from a bobbin to a reel, free acting and opposing, peruninent nlagnetic strippers bein, provided for the purpose, between which the thread passes, which strippers are. loosely mounted in a suitable frame and applicable to any form of winder or reel.

The. invention consists in the novel con-- struct-ion and combination of the several parts as will be. hereinafter lull) set forth and pointed out in the. claims.

Reference is to be had to the acconnianying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate. corresponding parts in all the tigures.

Figure 1 is aside elevation of the frame shown as supporting a reel and bobbin, and the improved tension guide and cleaner, and as provided with a driving mechanism for the shaft on-which the reel is mounted; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the device; Fig. 3 is afront elevation of the same; and Fig. 4 is a plan view thereof.

The frame A may boot any desired construction. T hat shown consists of rear uprights 10, forward uprights supported by suitably located transverse beams, and in addition to the aforesaid parts, the said frame consists of lower side beams 11 that extend beyond the frontof the frame, upper side beams 11, and intermediate side beams 12 that also extend beyond the front of the frame. The intermediate side beams 12 are coimected by a cross bar 13 at their forward ends, and a similar cross bar 14 connects the outer ends of lower side beams 11. A "shalt 15 is mounted in suitable bearings located on the upper cross bars 11, andthis shaft carries a pulley 16 that is connected with a belt; 17, which belt passes over a driving pulley 18 on the drive shaft- 19, journa-led in the frame.

The reels )0 are located on the up er slur-it I 15 and the bobbins 21 are locatei on the and thread cleaning device or devices are adustably secured to the cross bar or beam 13- clearly shown in Fig. l. The holder or eas- 23 that is attached at its'lower ortion to the side faces of the. base 22. At t to up )Ll' portion of the forward l'aeeof each uprig it 13, a. guard flange 24 is located, and these flanges shown in Fig. 3,. and also extend from the upper edges of the said uprights 23 down ward to a. point near their centers, and the forward faces of the said guard flanges 24 are beveled in direction of the space-between them, as is illustrated at. 25 in Fig. 4. Shorter guard llalnges 26 are formed at the inner edges of the uprights 23 at their bottom portion, and these'lower flanges 26 have integral with their bottom portion, floor sect-ions 26, as is illustrated in Fig. 2.

The upper edges of the lower guard flanges shown at 27in Fig. 3, and the owcr edges of the guard flanges 24 are beveled in a downward direction. Thus it will be observed that'at the front of theholder or casing B constituting the device, a space or opening is provided, defined by the-lower edges of the 11 )per uard flanges 24, and the upper edges oi the.- lower guard flanges 26, am the-inner edges of the standards 23 at their central portions.

At the central rear ort ion of each upright 33, an oll'set 2!) is produced, as is best shown in Fig. 2, and guard flanges -30 extend from said guard flanges 30 are opposite the space between the upper and lower guard flanges at the front, as is also shown in Fi 2. A. suitable space intervenes the guard flanges 30, the space being practically of the same .width as that between the. guard flanges 24 and 26, and the outer faces of .the guard flanges 30 are beveled in the direction of the l ig. 4. I 7

in car 32 is carried fromth'e base 22 at. that side opposite which the holder or casing secured, and this lug 32 is pivotaliy connected with a member 33 of a bracket 3-! adapted to be attached in any suitable er ing B of the device is made. in two sections,- 11 and b, each section consisting or an uprightextend in direction of each other, as is best.

space between them, as is shown-at 31 iu' lower cross bar 14, while the tension guide carried by the intermediate beams 12, as is.

'26 are beveled at the front u wardly, as is this offset in direction of each other, and the reel to which the thread is to be passed, and consisting of a holder, and positive magnets throu -h the said holder between its members consisting of a holder, magnetized strippers 45 .will remove there-from any luin s, motes, or ing magnetic strippers loosely mounte 1napproved manner to the intermediate front claim as new and desire to secure by Letters cross bar or beam l3. The pivotal connec Patent,-

rion between the bracket 33 and the lu 32 of 1. A tension guide and cleaner for thread,

the base 22 is through the medium 0? a set consisting of a holder, and magnetized strip- I screw 35, so that the holder or casing can be pcrs o positcly and loosely mounted therein. sdjusted relatively to the bobbin 21 and the A tension guide and cleaner for thread,

be secured in its adjusted position. The oppositely and looselj located in said holder, thread 36 passes from the bobbin 21 over the adapted to receive the thread between them. customary wire nude 37 and is then carried 3. A tension guzde and cleaner for thread,

and ii 'ewise between two strip )ers C and. C oppositely and loosely mounted in the holder, that are located op osite eac other, and a. base for the holder, a bracket and an adloosely in the said ho (ler or, casing, the lower justable connection between the said base ends of the strip ers resting upon the floor and the bracket.

sections 26, am the space between these 4. A tension guide and cleanerfor thread, strippers C and C when the strippers are consisting of a holder, com )rising two up- Iorced apart will be suflicient to permit the right sections provided wit a connecting passage of the thread. These strippers C base,.said sections being spaced apart, the and C are magnetized or are permanent said sections at their inner edges being promagnets, so that one will attract the other, vided with u per and lower spaced and op 2 i and consequently the said strip )GXS will acposed guard f anges at one side, and a bottom I commodete themselves to thread of different section and opposing spaced guard lianges at' diameters, and in hugging the thread closely the central portion of the other side, op ols i l i any otherprotuberances to be ound' on the the holder, and means for adjust-ably attach- 0 r l thread as it passes from a bobbin 21 to the in the holder to the su port. reel '20. v n testimony whereoi I have signed my This derice is exceedingly simple, and is name to this specification in the presence of efiective in its operation, the magnetic strip two subscribing witnesses.

pers C and C being at all times ready for YVILLIAM J. ENGLISH. Q action, and these strippers may be removed Witnesses: and replaced any time. C. W. FAIRBANK, l

Having thus described my invention I JOHN P. DAVIS. 

